Parents are required to participate; one child per adult. Children not toilet trained must wear a swim diaper.

Children participate in this class without parents. If you are interested in this class for your child under the age of 5, he/she must have participated in previous classes and must be approved by staff to participate. Class size depends on instructor availability.

Purpose: Helps students feel comfortable in the water.

Level I participants learn to:
- Enter and Exit water safely
- Float on front and back
- Open eyes underwater, submerge to pick up object
- Submerge mouth, nose and eyes
- Explore arm and hand movements
- Exhale underwater
- Explore swimming on front and back
- Use a life jacket
- Explore forward and backward motion without barbell
- Learn proper body position on front and back
- Demonstrate proper safety skills
Exit skills
- Enter unassisted, swim 5 yards with barbell, bob 5 times with head fully submerged, safely exit the water, travel along the gutter or "swim".
- Float on front with support for 3 seconds, roll to back (with assistance), float on back with support for 3 seconds.
- Jump independently, float on back with support for 3 seconds, roll to front with support, and float on front for 3 seconds with support.

Purpose: Learning proper body positioning and body mechanics.

Level II participants learn to:
- Demonstrate proper head position for freestyle and backstroke
- Rotary Breathing
- Independently kick with assisted materials
- Perform arm circles with barbell
- Swim freestyle and backstroke
- Demonstrate proper safety skills

Exit skills
- Independently swim 12 yards of freestyle
- Independently swim 12 yards of backstroke
- Kick independently with assisted device to 25 yards on front
- Streamline underwater for 5 yards
- Jump into deep water independently

Purpose: Builds on the skills in Level II through additional guided practice. Refining level 2

Level III participants learn to:
- Refine freestyle
- Refine backstroke
- Learn breaststroke kick fundamentals
- Demonstrate proper safety skills

Exit skills
- Continuously swim freestyle with rotary breathing for 50 yards
- Continuously swim backstroke with proper head alignment for 50 yards
- Perform proper breaststroke kick
- Perform kneeling dive

Purpose: Develops confidence and endurance in skills previously learned with focus on technique

In addition to refining freestyle and backstroke, Level IV participants learn to:
- Dive
- Swim breaststroke
- Tread water
- Perform butterfly kick
- Perform open turns on front and back
- Demonstrate proper safety skills

Exit skills
- Perform freestyle for 100 yards
- Perform backstroke for 100 yards
- Perform breaststroke for 50 yards
- Perform butterfly kick for 25 yards
- Standing dive
- Tread water for three minutes

Purpose: Provides further refinement of the following strokes:
- Freestyle
- Backstroke
- Breaststroke

Level V participants also learn to perform:
- Butterfly
- Front flip turn
- Backstroke flip turn
- Competition start from blocks
- Demonstrate proper safety skills

Exit skills
- Continuously swim freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and 50 yards of butterfly
- 5 minutes of treading water

You must register through the mail or in person for this class.

Recognized as one of the top martial arts programs in the country, fourtime world champion Steve Nugent
brings his teachings and philosophy to Cambridge Recreation. The program focuses on respect, discipline, and
integrity. Students are taught traditional stances, blocks, kicks, and strikes. In addition, emphasis is placed on
proper breathing, health and nutrition, stretching, exercise, and proper conduct. Also, the classes cover stranger awareness, fire safety and the importance of academic achievement. All uniforms, belts, and patches included in the fee.

Parent and child will have fun discovering gymnastics together through obstacle courses, games, and group activities. No experience required, but parent and child must be ready to participate together.